Quote Series : Run Away

He touched her hand and it felt deliberate.

'If i told you everything you were meant to know then you might run away' he pleaded.

As soon as he asked her not to run, that very moment, the split second of time which was now the past was no longer an idea but an action. I living breathing movement. She was sitting still but her heart was already barefoot and fleeing from him.

-Alexis Sykes